Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.